A few days ago i posted some Chinese dashcams and noted that it seemed to me that the people in these videos seemed indisposed to rendering aid. A commenter pointed out that this in fact the case, a result of Chinese law on the matter. Well, here’s support for that position:
Until 2017, however, China had no national law providing legal protection to good samaritans. Instead, the law made being a good samaritan extremely risky, allowing people to sue their rescuer to recover medical bills, and scammers frequently took advantage of this rule. Under the eyes of the law, the assumption became that you would only help someone if you were responsible for hurting them, resulting in a bad samaritan crisis. According to the South China Morning Post, this was something that happened frequently. In 2006, for example, a university student was required to pay the medical bills of an injured elderly woman whom he helped, because she sued him and claimed he pushed her. If a good samaritan is painted as evil, it is no wonder so many people are unenthusiastic about helping those in need.
Yikes. Once again, this shows that there’s no situation so awful that getting Communists involved can’t make it worse.
In 2017, the Chinese law was changed to provide protections to good Samaritans. But being Communists, they don;t know how to pass *sane* laws, an the new law goes overboard, saying that a rescuer can never be held liable for *anything,* no matter how stupid the rescuers efforts are. Still, that’s preferable to making sure that nobody ever tries to render aid. But the fear of reprisal has been ingrained into the Chinese people; it could well take many years before the culture changes substantially.
But there’s more:
In fact, there’s even a saying in China that translates to, “It’s better to hit to kill than to hit and injure.” This is because of a terribly convoluted law requiring motorists to pay for the care of the person they injured for the rest of their life, while the payment required for killing someone outright is a one-time fee, usually associated with the cost of burial.
Spectacular. There are several gruesome tales of people repeatedly rolling over pedestrians they hit in order to make sure they’re dead in this article. Coupled with a culture of corruption, where the cops and courts are readily bought off, this legal nonsense seems to have made a whole of lot regular people into wholly heartless monsters, as thoroughly devoid of empathy and conscience as supporters of Antifa riots. This is the culture in charge of manufacturing all the electronic devices that have infiltrated our lives and which are at this very moment watching you.